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New OrderNovember 21st, 1986Aragon BallroomChicago, ILUSARecording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive.Source: Aiwa CM-30A
Newly digitized!
There are currently 3 New Order shows to listen to or download in the Adam Jacobs collection.
"I Think You Just Saved My Life" - Ep. 5
V&A East Archive Report: Two 'New' Labyrinth Songs Discovered!
(Apologies for my long absence from any meaningful posting here - I'd run out of things to say for a long while, but my discoveries today warrant a return to the world of Labyrinth!)
I had a fascinating visit to the study room at the David Bowie Centre at V&A East today, where I requested all their papers relating to Jim Henson’s Labyrinth. I made one particularly exciting discovery: two completely ‘new’ songs Bowie wrote for the film.
I can’t share the full lyrics for either song to avoid falling foul of copyright law, but the songs are titled ‘All in All’ and ‘Crystal Heartbeat’. Both songs have full lyrics, and are written in Bowie’s own hand. If you want to access either lyric sheet, the V&A archive reference is DBA/4/1/14/2.
I enclose ‘new’ with quotation marks very deliberately because I have the impression that these are both draft lyrics for what would become ‘As the World Falls Down’ (‘All in All’) and ‘Underground’ (‘Crystal Heartbeat’). This is an educated guess on my part, but I believe it’s likely based on the lyrical evidence.
Like ATWFD, ‘All in All’ (27 lines) is a love song with a woozy feel - it’s bombastic and filled with grand romantic gestures, and literally quotes the phrase “in the heat of the morning” (the title and refrain of an early Bowie song). IMHO, it’s easily the superior of the two ‘new’ songs.
‘All in All’ seems well-aligned with the more didactic early drafts of the ‘Labyrinth’ script, which was written by Terry Jones to present Jareth as a more straightforwardly manipulative trickster hiding beneath a facade of physical beauty. It’s filled with Jareth’s overwrought declarations of love (unlikely as it may seem, his love is bigger than the sun that shines!) and invites Sarah to join him in a world of pretend. ATWFD is definitely better from a lyrical perspective, and certainly more nuanced, but 'All in All' isn't half bad.
‘Crystal Heartbeat’ (23 lines) is simpler and less lyrically complex, and has a similar theme of being lost in the confusion of adolescence to ‘Underground’. It’s highly repetitive and feels like an up-tempo dance track (thus why I think it’s an early attempt at the main credits theme).’Underground’ is vastly superior from a lyrical perspective, so it’s easy to see why this draft was ditched.
There are also handwritten lyric sheets for ‘As the World Falls Down’ and ‘Magic Dance’ (on the same sheet), ‘Within You’ and ‘Underground’. These lyrics are mostly very similar or identical to the versions included in the film, though ‘Magic Dance’ has some interesting annotations on delivery (so “what could I do” had “fun” written in the margin).
The only song without handwritten lyrics is ‘Chilly Down’, though there are various storyboards and correspondence relating to that particular song in the archive. It was clearly one of the harder nuts to crack, given the technical complexity of the Fire Gang scene (with the puppets filmed against black velvet, and the sequence workshopped over many iterations).
The collection is fascinating and completely free to access (though you have to book!) and I can’t recommend going along enough - I feel very lucky and privileged to have handled all of this with my own hands! You can contact the archive and book an appointment to see the collection for yourself here: https://vam.libanswers.com/archives
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This is so valid like why it's so common in JT etc 😂😂
this one gets me every time
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we have GOT to start calling the flu "the grip" again
the worst part about all the social media feeds inserting suggested posts is that i am regularly looped into reading AI slop posts like if you really need AI to craft your random stream of consciousness over sharing you are missing all the fun
i haven't been on here much lately has it hit here too? anyway my brain is wired for run on sentences and general tumblr dialect not the chat cookie cutter rhetoric like literally makes me queasy to read
i put “All I Want for Christmas is You” through a MIDI converter, and then back through an mp3 converter
the result is this garbage
I’m driving myself up the wall because I swear I can hear the vocal line but I don’t know how that could be if it was truly converted to MIDI. Unless you can replicate speech sounds entirely with modulated MIDI notes, in which case I’m actually impressed with this tire fire of an MP3.
the holiday season is almost upon us and I’d like to bring back this absolute fucking monstrosity of an audio file
computer show me photograph of lou reed and john cale stoned out of their fucking minds in front of the world's shittiest christmas tree
i have to do everything myself around here
i spent way too long on this, have some content becket fandom
so you’ve fallen in love with an under appreciated actor with a terrible filmography: a memoir
wow i never actually sold tickets before because i'm usually not a quitter but it's
terrible
i wish to elaborate
neither show is sold out for context
so i sold one ticket on ticketmaster - could not set a price but there was an "offer from a verified buyer" for 18 dollars but I got 15. the ticket was like 40 at time of purchase. so who is this buyer if not ticketmaster themselves, all to relist the ticket there or on their own stubhub? 🤔🤔🤔
they created a money tree it seems.
i cannot test this theory as it was a general admission ticket
then i have an extra ticket to pulp which i listed back on axs at a discount. much easier process or so i thought until I realized my ticket wasn't listed on the event page, nor were any resale. so i contact support who tells me that it's listed but the promoter may be blocking resale until it sells out. which it will not.
so i pull the listing and am now selling it on stubhub, again, priced to move HOWEVER i check my listing and they're listing it above original sale price. they were already giving me less than i was listing it for and have the nerve to list it for more 😪
so i lowered it selling at a huge loss just so it's realistically priced at having a chance of moving and will probably have to lower it more still.
this is probably not news to anyone but i really never sold tickets before and rarely buy resale. 🙃
wow i never actually sold tickets before because i'm usually not a quitter but it's
terrible
